I would suspect that there is a lot of new athletes to consider for knighthood.

They (I suppose she, theoretically at least) don't give them to sports-persons that often, but this year will be interesting. As Redgrave and Hoy got them, Ben Ainslie should and it would be criminal if Bradley Wiggins doesn't with the Tour de France win (the first ever by a Brit) as well as his medals over the years.

Becky Addlington should get a female equivalent. She is a star - we've never had a female double gold medal winner in swimming and one who then won medals at a second Games.

Fair point. Might have to do something else on top, though, for 'charitee' and such. I was going to compare her with Kelly Holmes, but it seems she (Holmes) had already been awarded an MBE (military division) long before Athens.

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ORIGINAL: Orm

I just heard a rumor that IOC are about to disqualify 5 athletes from the Athen's olympic games. Some medal winners are supposed to be among them.

If that's true, it would be nice if they could fly those who were cheated out of their rightful medal to London for a special ceremony to receive them in front of a full stadium.

"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."- W.T. Sherman

Until there's a final collation of which education sector won what at London 2012, the debate over schooling is likely to rage on. At the time of writing, private school athletes had won 32% of Team GB's medals.

And that's the BBC.

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Until there's a final collation of which education sector won what at London 2012, the debate over schooling is likely to rage on. At the time of writing, private school athletes had won 32% of Team GB's medals.

And that's the BBC.

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WTF?!?!

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